jr_dakota wrote: > > Wait until you have a boot sector problem ... and DOS is pretty much > worthless for recovering a NTFS formatted drive > > I did have a problem on this machine, when I built it I put in two > SATA drives which the bios numbers drive 4 and 5 .... ATA drives are > numbered drive 0-3 ... Well I decided to take the extra 80GB ATA drive >>from my old computer and put it in here for storing HDTV streams ... > Problem is the BIOS named it drive 0 and GRUB from Linux just went > haywire, it would always look to drive 0 for the bootsector which was > really on drive 4 and nothing I did would change the behavior ... So I > had to run the Vista recovery program which rewrote the boot sector > and didn't get confused but the BIOS numbering of the drives .... I > just found it odd that Linux couldn't handle it but Vista could ... > Granted not many people start with SATA drives and go to ATA, it's > usually the other way around ... So now I'm kinda screwed because I > don't have decent drivers for my soundcards under Vista and I can't > run Studio 64 for recording like I planned >
Bad point, Linux can indeed handle this with ease. The problem is you lack of the necessary know-how. The Linux kernel can rely to periferals (e.g. hard disks) in two ways, through the BIOS or by direct testing the hardware ignoring the BIOS data. The results you obtain depend on how you call Linux to do it. Grub takes the information about the hardware configuration by using the data the kernel returns. The information on how to manage this can be simply found reading the wide spread how-tos. Things can be done easily if the necessary know-how is acquired before trying to do things. ;-) You can find many people of the Linux community ready to help you in solving such kind of problems if you feel to be in trouble. In any case, what has all this to do with soft_radio? Alberto (and he's not the sole) has verified the fact Vista doesn't satisfy the prerequisites necessary for efficient DSP and SDR processing. What is wrong with this? I suspect you have missed the point. :-) vy 73s de Andreas - ik2wqi
